E.M. Anderson
@elizmanderson.bsky.social
THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (Mira 2025). THE REMARKABLE RETIREMENT OF EDNA FISHER (Midnight Meadow 2023). BLM. Queer. ND. She/they. Rep: Keir Alekseii, ALA.
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@shaynalambert.bsky.social did some fan art for THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (2025), so let's have the writing/the character <3
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*except Morgan is not allowed to ask why the characters like it in Ohio or any question about Ohio in fact
literally me, please for the love of god ask me questions about my work*
In my experience, many writers (not all!) love to be asked weird, arcane, particular, or general questions about their work or some aspect of it, even (especially) the ones who might be most reticent about talking about their work without prompting, lest they seem impolite or narcissistic or boring.
if u like I can serenade u to make u feel better, but it'll be the JG Wentworth song bc ads
this is probably the only sort of retirement I'll ever get as a millennial so if that's supposed to be a sick burn from whoever said it, it's not working lmao
I'm more like omg retirement do you mean it??
Someone referred to bsky as a "millennial retirement home" and... yeah....
I literally ALWAYS tell people the reason my book is a fantasy is bc I'm a millennial so I'll never get to retire
we're literally sponsored by nuns who are themselves "not Catholic enough" for the more conservative crowd, so it was all code for, like, "is this school reasonably queer-friendly" and I've since learned in the 90s it's where you went if you wanted a queer-friendly school bc queer folks just Knew
when I finished up my schooling at a Catholic uni I literally asked this admissions counselor like "soooooo how Catholic are we" and she was like, well, some people come here and don't like it bc we're not Catholic enough for them, and I was like lmao sounds perfect
the trees try not to listen to him and he just swings through the treetops like IF YOU DON'T LISTEN TO ME I'M JUST GONNA DO THIS FOREVER
need to go see the film again just so I can watch the credits like a hawk for "eagle noises"
right?? the eagles started making their eagle sounds and I was like HEYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!! like it literally delighted me lmfao
anyway in this case thank you to whoever on this movie crew was responsible for CGI animal noises for not perpetuating the eagle screech and creating more such Americans
I will LITERALLY link them to the Macaulay Call Library and then block them
I don't understand this comment bc SURELY if we wanna be all America about it, our bald eagles should sound like bald eagles!! but these were golden eagles anyway I'm p sure
I mean technically they were CGI eagles, but they were MEANT to be golden eagles I'm p sure
until of course I do my livetweet of the prequels next weekend, then y'all are doomed and I'm gonna be muted left and right
...okay no spoilers but I DO feel a need to say that KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (2024) gets points for its eagles actually sounding like eagles instead of red-tailed hawks
I'm a birder it's an obligatory comment I'm done now
I do it open-faced but I also love scrambled eggs on toast 😌 I will simply not eat scrambled eggs NOT on toast
but anyway this is bc I am watching this movie currently lol, I am NOT currently watching THE LION KING ON BROADWAY bc I am at home on my couch
also that WHICH BTW also makes an appearance right at the start of this movie~
we now interrupt this scrolling for a very important announcement: One of Us, THE LION KING II OST (1998)
Eggs: scrambled but only if I make them myself, or poached
Steak: medium-rare, if it's well-done I don't want it
Milk: lactose-free lmao, usually get 2%
Alcohol: generally no
Warm drink: usually prefer iced drinks, but hot chocolate or (depending on the time of year) a latte
...my answers for 4 of the 5 categories are "no", I don't know what that says about me
Eggs: no (only in baking)
Steak: no, strict vegetarian
Milk: skim
Alcohol: no
Warm drink: (typically) no (but if ever yes, hot chocolate)
I haven't seen it in a loooooooong time but I remembered really enjoying it (and now I will be unable to watch it NOT that way lmao, but that makes perfect sense)
not that there AREN'T lifelong Catholics who are some kind of way, but
some of the nuns near us had literally taken out a billboard for several years that was something like "I was a stranger and you welcomed me" but "stranger" was crossed out and replaced with "immigrant"
you'd think his goal would be to break his curse, but he's given up on that by now lmao sorry Peter bby
the MC of THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (2025) is an old man cursed with immortality whose goal, always, is to avoid making friends with mortals who will only die one day
instead he hunts ghosts to pass the time and give his long and pointless life meaning
art by me!
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We're running a casual #LateNightWrite tonight. Introduce your cast of characters! Who are they? What are their goals? Feel free to ask questions of each other! Have any character art? Share it here!
Feel free to QRT about your cast anytime!
...I just finished BROTHER BEAR (2003) and now I'm watching THE LION KING II: SIMBA'S PRIDE (1998) so safe to say Planet of the Apes has made me regress to my childhood when I couldn't've cared less about human stories and wanted all animals all the time
oh no I responded to the second one specifically to avoid that 😂 we are most definitely NOT canceling you over this, we are riding into battle with you over it lmao
I would've been living my best life, would've been the one sexy person in significantly less clothing bc I am always too freaking hot
one time a trio of teenagers at a fast food joint were showing each other that commercial on their phones like "look at this hilarious old commercial!" and I crumbled into dust
remember when instead of doing all these freaking remakes Disney was just re-releasing old movies in theaters for 3D viewings? I always thought Tarzan would've been PERFECT for that bc of all the tree-surfing, that would've looked rad as hell
yes but I specified we would NOT be chopping down trees or generally destroying the environment
so I imagine the Ents would not mind that we're doing things like putting a bird bath in our garden or a fanciful knocker on our door
I'm so sorry but this is a Caesar stan account now, it was nice talking about my books while it lasted but I can no longer resist my true calling
not to be that guy (jk you know at this point I am inescapably that guy), but Tarzan and Caesar are both like NOOOOOOOOO at important moments after spending most of their lives not speaking human speech